Camellia is another winter-blooming shrub and certain cultivars will drape themselves with their most… Read more
Trees and shrubs
Majestic towering trees compete with emblematic shrubs to decorate gardens throughout the year. Stupendous flower-bearing, fragrance-releasing bushes will fit right into any garden and even squeeze onto balconies, decks and terraces to provide nice landscaping features, bird housing and the occasional luscious fruit or off-hand remedy! These pages will share everything on how to plant and what to expect from your shrubs and trees.
Elegant camellias
If roses are all the rage in summer, camellia takes the limelight during winter. Read more
Camellia sasanqua, a fairy garden at the end of fall
Camellia sasanqua is a small shrub with simple flowers that blossoms from fall into… Read more
Common laurel, perfect for an evergreen hedge
Common laurel is a shrub evergreen that is often shaped to form hedges. Read more
Cape mallow, all about caring for Anisodontea
Cape mallows are beautiful shrubs that flower in the spring. They deserve a prominent… Read more
Winterizing your olive trees
It might come as a surprise, but what is most fatal to olive trees… Read more
Oak, the king of the forest
Oak is one of the most common trees and the most majestic when it… Read more
Ginkgo biloba, superb in any season
The Ginkgo biloba or silver apricot is a very ornamental tree thanks to the… Read more
Viburnum tinus Lisarose, superb in fall
Viburnum tinus ‘Lisarose’ is a shrub whose reputation comes from its cute fall flowering,… Read more
Glossy Abelia, a cute little flower shrub
Glossy abelia is a beautiful shrub that offers cute blooming over the summer. Read more
How to plant heath plants
Heath plants love acidic, cool and well-drained soil. Planting is an important phase in… Read more
Mock-orange, beautiful flowering shrub
Mock-orange is a very beautiful shrub that blooms abundantly in spring and at the… Read more
Cedar tree, a magnificent conifer
The cedar tree is certainly one of the most beautiful conifers, and one of… Read more
All there is to know about pruning hydrangeas
Hydrangea is a beautiful shrub, and pruning helps boost blooming and makes the plant… Read more
Crepe myrtle, superb blooming
Crepe myrtle is an amazing ornamental summer-blooming shrub. Read more
Cloud pruning for trees and shrubs
Niwaki – this is the Japanese word for pruning trees into clouds. An ancestral,… Read more
Pruning trees and shrubs
Better not to prune than to prune wrong. Before going crazy with your hand… Read more
Setting up a hedge, flowered, mixed or evergreen?
Hedges often mark property lines and are usually the first project for the garden.… Read more
Leyland cypress, the king of hedges
The Leyland cypress is certainly one of the conifers most used to set up… Read more
Bay laurel, a very aromatic shrub
Bay laurel reminds one of the Mediterranean Coast with its very fragrant foliage. Read more
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